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E.L.SNADER.

GO'FFIN.

No. 595,462. Patented Dec. 14,1897.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES Y PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD L. SNADER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COFFlN SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 595,462, datedDecember 14, 1897.

Application filed March 2 3, 189 7.

panying drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1is a perspective view of the open end of the exterior coffin crease andthe detachable head. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 3is a horizontalsection on line w of Fig. 2 with gasketcut away athereinafter set forth and claimed.

In said drawings the top and bottom of the casing or exterior coffin areshown at A A, projecting beyond the side pieces shown at B The sidepieces B B are rabbeted on the inner edges of the ends, as seen at b b,and the inner faces of the ends of the top. and bottom pieces are cutaway to a depth equal to the rabbet on the side pieces, except where theprojecting surface abuts against the unrabbeted portion of the ends ofthe side pieces -B, this portion being flush, as seen at a a.

This construction of the ends leaves a continuous rabbet or recessaround the open end into which is bent back the edge of the metalliclining of the case, as seen at d d, and said edge secured by screws 1 t"or other fastenings, The depthof this rabbet or recess is such as toalso accommodate a rubber or other elastic gasket G,-upon which the re-Serial No. 628,813. (No model.)

movable head H bears when screwed up tightly. The gasket or packing maybe on the head and fit into the rabbet without departing from the spiritof my invention.

I I discover that by abstaining from the use of the cross-bar, centralscrew, and other fastenin g effects, as described in my former patent,Ican get a cheap and efficacious fastening for the head by using headedbolts to pass through the removable head covering and which, passingthrough longitudinal holes h h v in the side pieces, engage withinserted nuts n n, which are set into the wood of the side pieces and bywhich the head-covering is drawn down with the enormous pressure of thescrew in a metal bearing against the gasket to make the joint air andgas tight.

The conformation of the removable head H is to fit closely against theside pieces and inside the extended top and bottom pieces of the case.Thus the mechanical construction leaves a symmetrical construction ofthe inclosing coffin and all the exterior angles right angles, while theend is closed hermetically.

I am aware it is not broadly new to rabbet the edge of a coffin andsecure the edge of the metallic lining in said rabbet, and I am alsoaware that coflin-covers have heretofore been secured by means of screwsengaging with nuts embedded in the body of the coffin, and hence Idistinctly disclaim either of these broadly as my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In an exterior coffin the side pieces provided with the rabbetedinterior edges, and the top and bottom pieces provided with the extendedrecessed ends, so cut as to form a recess around the entire opening, incombination with the interior metallic lining arranged as described, thegasket, removable head, bolts and inserted nuts, all constructed,arranged and operated as described.

EDWARD L. SNADER.

Witnesses:

GEORGE PAUNOEFORT, F. W. CALDWELL.

